Henry Louis Gates Quotes
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
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I hate being too pretty.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
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The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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I eat a lot of fish to stay healthy.
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When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.
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The nearer you come to God, the less you are disposed to questioning and reasoning. When you actually attain Him, when you behold Him as the reality, then all noise, all disputations, come to an end.
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I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.
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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.
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Having a Mary Poppins-themed birthday party when I was 5 - all my friends went in dresses, and I went as a chimney sweep. I was a real tomboy.
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Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
